Chapter Seventy-Two: The Temple

The lake was covered with water lilies, duckweeds, reeds and all kinds of aquatic plants, the most dangerous of which were leeches and some fierce piranhas, but because of Dugu Feng's attack, everyone easily crossed the lake and did not make any movement to alarm the guarding lizardmen.

So they still have time to watch the former temple of Amanata, although it has been abandoned for a long time, but this temple is much more intact than the ruins of the Elven Empire of Ilfarang. On the walls around the entrance to the inner part of the temple, you can still clearly see the frescoes of the past.

The frescoes, some of which depict the sun shining brightly above the snow-covered mountains, dwarves holding festivities.

Some depict the sun shining through the shade of the forest onto the flowers, and the elves dancing around the flowers. Some depict humans in a boat, basking in the sun. Some show halflings walking towards their homes halfway up the hill with a good harvest on their heads, the sun setting behind towering wheat fields.

These murals depict the four seasons of antiquity, with the sun prominent in each scene. Apparently in praise of the former sun god Amanata.

"What does it smell like?"

Shi Ji, who was taking out the salted meat and dough in the package, and feeding the newborn dragon one by one, suddenly snorted, and looked around with some confusion, she smelled an extremely strong smell of rotten eggs, and inexplicably felt a little dangerous.

"You can't put your fireball spell in this place!"

Villa Roland, as well as Lady Silverdragon, are very experienced people, and when you look at the swampy environment and the smell of rotten eggs, you know that the air here is full of meshe, and the slightest open flame can cause a terrifying explosion.

"These lizardmen are really damning!"

Dugu Feng shook his head and looked at the location of this temple. This dark swampy lake, with a lot of silt and rotting leaves, is like a huge biogas digester. Large amounts of natural gas and biogas poured into the temple ruins through the cracks in the ground. Now the entire interior of the temple is filled with swamp gas.

To be honest, in this environment, as long as a mage with a little knowledge and IQ comes over, directly casts a spell to block the entrance, and when the ratio of biogas and air is mixed, he throws a torch directly into it, which guarantees that the ruins of this temple can be turned into a large cloud burst bomb, and a good show of natural gas leakage and explosion accident can be staged.

"Forget it, seeing that this is still a ruin, it won't blow up."

Dugu Feng thought about it, but he still didn't have the habit of destroying the ruins, so he gave up the idea of directly blowing up the lizardmen with the ruins.

"Let's go, go down and have a look, it's time to hunt for treasures and farm monsters again!"

The group entered the temple from the north wall along a 20-foot-wide stone arcade, where there had once been a large gilded door, but they had been stolen long ago by adventurers or some other thief passing through, and all that remained was a few holes in the wall and hinges installed.

The rain and fog of the dream, and the rumbling thunder from the edge of the swamp in the distance, made everyone's movements less conspicuous. Walking all the way to the hall of the temple without hindrance, the column-filled building was exposed to everyone. Rainwater poured in through the huge broken holes in the ceiling, which showed signs of broken copper frames and stained glass from the past. The floor is covered with a sinkhole, and the pillars are covered with mold. Inside the wall behind the columns, a row of gloomy alcoves is set.

The south wall is painted with a faded sun, its golden rays spreading in all directions. Beneath the portrait lies a stone altar, half-buried in bones and entrails. Crawling on top of this disgusting pile were beetles the size of treasure chests, their bodies glowing like lanterns.

The four lizardmen are lazy, their scales bearing a honeycomb leprosy contagion.

This hall is the main place of worship for the sun worshippers who built the temple. Facing the back wall is an altar on part of the original building, although it has not been maintained. The entrails were piled up on top and in front of the altar to provide food to the fire beetles and to be used as a tribute to the evil goddess Talona, who the lizardmen worshipped her.

Dugu Feng and the others broke in, and finally alarmed the defenders of this temple, and the four lizardmen immediately pulled out their weapons and charged towards everyone.

This time, Dugu Feng didn't throw five more fireballs, but the four lizardmen were still quickly dealt with. Miranor, the moon elf who practiced the "Pure White Heart of the Jewel Maiden", demonstrated her brilliant two-handed sword mastery skills.

Four dazzling silver lights flashed, and thin blood marks appeared directly on the necks of the four lizardmen, and as the two lizardmen continued to rush forward, the thin blood marks directly turned into neat incisions, and the broken head fell to the ground, making a 'snap, click, sound.

Even the slain lizardmen did not react, and their falling heads still retained the excitement and cruelty of encountering adventurers.

At this moment, hearing the movement, the two lizardmen who rushed out of the other rooms suddenly let out a roar of mixed anger, and their forward posture couldn't help but be restrained, and they subconsciously wanted to defend or escape.

However, the moon elf Milano was like a light butterfly, and with a light step, he passed the two lizardmen, and the two silver sword lights intersected again. The heads and necks of the two escaped lizardmen parted again, and blood arrows burst into the sky.

From Milano's sword to the separation of the heads and necks of the four lizardmen, the lizardmen didn't even see the traces of each other's swords, and they completely lost their lives and turned into corpses falling into the dust.

"What a great swordsmanship!"

Ms. Veria Roland's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly, the swordsmanship of the moon elf was full of a strange charm, it seemed to have a great bonus in speed and agility, she could notice that the moment the moon elf took out the sword, the weight and mass of the moon elf seemed to disappear, and the acceleration process of the double sword far exceeded the normal state.

And the speed of the moon elf in the state of the dual swords seems to have no limit, and every movement and every move of the sword is faster than the previous second and the last moment. And the combination of the two swords is perfect, and even a legendary swordsman like Veria Roland can't find the flaws and flaws he deserves.

"This is the 'Pure White Heart of the Jewel Maiden' from the 'Ancient Tomb', the powerful swordsmanship that once defeated the Dragon Elephant Warrior Monk's 'Golden Ring' master!"

For Ms. Ville Roland's admiration, Dugufeng responded seriously. Of course, this set of 'Pure White Hearts of Gem Girls' from the world of Gaowu Gangman after being modified by Dugu Phoenix Demon is indeed worthy of such admiration.

"It turned out to be the martial arts of the world's mentor of Vandis! Sure enough, the warriors of that world are always like this...... Peculiar! ”

Ms. Vilia Roland didn't hear the other meaning of Dugu Feng's words, she seriously recalled the performance of the moon elf Milano when he swung his sword, and after a little silence, she gave such an evaluation. Because she found that the performance of this 'Jewel Maiden's Pure White Heart' seemed to be as strange as that of the "Wise Dragon Elephant Beast", and the upgrade did not seem to increase Physique and Strength, but only increased Agility and Perception. So the power attached to the attack is not strong, but the speed and frequency of the attack are amazing.

While Dugufeng was talking to Lady Ville Roland, Shi Ji had already begun her duties as a part-time thief, sweeping the hall in search of any treasures that the lizardmen might have left behind. And the young dragon that she temporarily put down obediently followed her, rubbing her heels very affectionately.

The hall was littered with pieces of wood, rubble, and beetle carcasses. The wood fragments are all remnants of the destruction of the old church pews. And the rubble is easily recognizable as a fragment of a stone ceiling.

On the west wall was a pair of wooden spears leaning against it. Underneath the spear, there were four rough wooden cages placed there. Each cage was 3 feet long, and a fire beetle that glittered like a firefly was trapped. Because of the presence of biogas in the temple, there was no fire to light it on, so the lizardmen used the glands of the fire beetles to illuminate specific areas of the temple - when they needed them, they trapped the beetles in cages, stabbed them to death with spears, ripped out the glands with their claws, and carried them with them as if they were carrying lanterns.

There wasn't much value in the hall, the alcoves were nothing but dark mold and filth. Shi Ji turned around, and found only a beautifully carved crystal on the altar - it was a veined jade set in a granite slab.

"What a disappointment, these lizardmen are so poor, they can't even compare to those half-orcs!"

Shi Ji muttered as she followed the crowd as she continued to sweep the ruins of the Sweeper.

The former temple of Amanata is a very well-preserved relic. Cathedrals, treasury vaults, storehouses, priests' prayer rooms, libraries, monks' quarters, baths, ritual preparation rooms, altars, stairwells, basements, and much more, all of which are almost completely intact - of course, they have now been transformed into lizardmen's dwellings.

Just like the six lizardmen who had just killed them, the moon elves who practiced the "Jewel Girl's Pure White Heart" were as fast as lightning before they could react.

Dugu Feng and the others cleaned all the way, collected all the way, and finally found a locked box in the priest's residence. When Shiki opens the chest with a thief's skill, he finds that it contains a quartz gem, a hammer that glows with a permanent magical light, a bottle of invisibility - in a vial made of hollowed-out demon horns, a purple-red velvet bag containing 45 platinum coins, and finally a blue waterproof candle.